The Doctor is the last Time Lord because he used a time-weapon to destroy the remaining Time Lords -and- the Daleks despite their ability to travel in time and get away. He saw that whichever side won would go on to devastate the universe, probably retrospectively. It’s discussed from the Time Lord point of view at the start of part two of “The End of Time”.

It would be delightful to see a mega-marathon of every extant episode! It would gobble up an awful lot of programming time, though, and is consequently probably impractical for actual broadcast. I wonder how long it would actually take…..

Thanks.

BTW, we are all enjoying Doctor Who, even without necessarily knowing all of the backstory.

I should add, the original series was more geared toward being educational, regarding historic events, with far less science fiction and it wasn’t until 1968 that it finally jumped fully into science fiction.

Fortunately, we don’t need Netflix, as our local library is part of the county’s library system, and we can borrow any book/DVD from any of the county’s libraries. (And, if you don’t mind waiting a few days, they deliver it — free of charge — to your local library.)

Can anyone point me to the name of the collection to get if we wanted to watch the very beginning? (Starting with the first episode with the first Doctor.) Their naming convention is a bit confusing to me, as we just borrowed two different sets, both called “the complete fourth series”. (I think one was the 10th and the other the 11th Doctor.)

I can only watch 2 hours a month for my instant Netflix and only get two disks a month so I still have a lot of catching up to do.

I don’t get any special cable channels and as far as I can tell there’s no Who on broadcast TV in my area. I used to love watching Dr Who nightly on my PBS station, but no more.

Is there any other way for me to catch up?